ZELENSKY’S PRAISE FOR MADURO’S KIDNAPPING MUST TEACH SA TO CHOOSE ALLIES WISELY
As most of the international community paused in “shock and awe” of the US whilst staging a brazen military attack on Venezuela – kidnapping and whisking away the country’s president and his wife to a detention centre far away in New York – some celebrated the cowboy drama as a lesson for adversaries. Among the […]
GOODBYE TO A CHAOTIC 2025 – AND HELLO TO AN EVEN MORE TURBULENT 2026
To those hoping that the new year would bring some calm resolve to a world gripped by significant crises across the board—think again. The year 2026 has already opened with a literal bang, and promises to be even more tumultuous than its predecessor. Taking center stage in this is the major escalation between Ukraine and […]
US ARMING TAIWAN IS TO POKE NOSE INTO CHINA’S SOVEREIGNTY
If actions indeed speak louder than words,this week’s decision by the US to approve a record weapons sale toTaiwan is proof that the Trump administration is doing everything in its military power to trigger a confrontation with China. The 11.1 billion dollar sale of massive package of advanced weaponry for Taiwan was greenlighted byPete Hegseth’s […]
INDIA’S HOSTING OF PUTIN MARKS ALIGNMENT WITH THE GLOBAL SOUTH INSTEAD OF THE WEST
In a visibly divided international world order, cut down the middle between the Global North and Global South, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has nailed his country’s colours to the mast by brazenly defying the West and hosting Russian President Vladimir Putin on a state visit. It is a stance India has not taken lightly. […]
A NEW WORLD ORDER THRASHED OUT IN CHINA THROUGH GLOBAL SOUTH MEDIA COOPERATION
A large contingency of media bosses from across the Global South converged on the Chinese city of Xi’an, a state-built cosmopolitan and national central haven of some 13 million permanent residents to map out a path to a new world order. The event, held this week in the middle of the Chinese Autumn, was dubbed: […]
“UPHOLD THE GREAT PRINCIPLE, AND THE WORLD WILL FOLLOW,” SAYS CHINESE PRESIDENT XI JINPING
At the recent summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization Plus (SCO) held in Tianjin, China, President Xi Jinping proposed before dozens of world leaders a fresh pathway to a new international world order in which sovereignty of nations would become sacrosanct. The Chinese president coined the phrase Global Governance Initiative (GGI) as the latest concept […]
BRICS MUST ACCEPT MORE MEMBERS TO BECOME A TRUE CATALYST FOR A NEW, BETTER WORLD ORDER
The annual BRICS Summit, to be attended by heads of state, takes place in Brazil’s Rio de Janeiro in early July. BRICS, acronym for Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, is expanding at the speed of a lightning. At the 2023 BRICS Summit in South Africa, six more countries were accepted as members into […]